SBIR/STTR Research Award
Mobile Robots for EDM Aircraft Defastening
Award amount
$49,431Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2021Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- WILDER SYSTEMS INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2021-04-12
- Contract end date
- 2021-07-19
- UEI
- CUZEPXLMG2H4
- Solicitation number
- X21.1
- Topic code
- AF211-CSO1
Research abstract
The Air Force spends $12 billion annually on organic and commercial depot-level maintenance, $1 billion of which is aircraft defastening. The current process for defastening is labor-intensive and error prone. Defect rates can reach as high as 20% using a standard twist drill. “Hard Metal Fasteners”, containing titanium, steel, and other strong alloys cause a disproportionate amount of defects due to the inherent difficulty drilling through the material by hand. Due to the high likelihood of damage to the aircraft and high cost of labor, the cost of defastenting these Hard Metal Fasteners is an achilles heel for USAF aircraft maintainers.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Robotic C-130 Clear Water Rinse System to Promote Aircraft Availability
- Wilder Systems STRATFI 2024
- Robotic System for Large Aircraft OML Wash
- Autonomous Non-Destructive Inspection for Aircraft Structural Repair
- Mobile Robots for Large Aircraft Maintenance
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Training the Ethical Employment of Lethal Autonomous Weapons (TEELAWS)
- Braided Ultra-High Temperature (UHT) Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMC) Scramjet Isolator Development
- SBIR Sequential Phase II (TACFI) Traditional Contract - Athenium Analytics Always Ahead
- Advanced Fielding and Deployment Dashboard Platform
- Starfish Space STRATFI
Research funding history
16 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2019–2025). Reported award amounts total $27,286,353. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation